Our taste of the Sydney Film Festival returns to Toowoomba from 7 – 9 September.
The regional roadshow of the Sydney Film Festival is the Travelling Film Festival. This year it’ll screen seven feature films and two documentaries at Toowoomba Strand Cinema.
The festival was started by David Stratton in 1974 and now tours to 18 regional locations year-round, including six Queensland centres, nine in New South Wales and three in the Northern Territory, as well as Sydney to Hobart with the TFF at Sea.
Receiving a standing ovation and taking out the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sydney Film Festival 2018, Backtrack Boys will open the Toowoomba festival. The film follows a troubled teenage trio on a rocky path towards jail, until they meet a rule-breaking jackaroo and join his legendary dog jumping team.
“We’re thrilled to bring the Festival back to the local Toowoomba community!” said Festival Manager, Karina Libbey. “The program is absolutely packed with critically-acclaimed titles from all over the world, as well as some of the most-loved films at Sydney Film Festival in June.”
Closing the Festival will be 2018 Sydney Film Prize winner The Heiresses by Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi. A rare film from Paraguay’s modest film industry, the complex relationship drama takes an unusual look at the lives of wealthy Paraguayan families, through the tribulations of a lesbian couple.
Highlight films include The Insult, winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at Sydney Film Festival 2018; Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Fair On Foot, starring Joaquin Pheonix alongside Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and Jack Black; and Kusama – Infinity, a colourful documentary following celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Other international features include Ága, Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov’s award-winning story of enduring love in frozen Siberia; emotional drama Daughter Of Mine from Laura Bispuri (Sworn Virgin, SFF 2015); Wajib – The Wedding Invitation, following the lives of Palestinians living in Israel, starring real-life father and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri; and wartime love story Transit, from Christian Petzold (Barbara, SFF 2012; Phoenix, SFF 2015).
Tickets to Australia’s longest running travelling film festival are now on sale with ‘Subscribe and Save’ packages offering great value for multiple ticket purchases, with tickets from just $9.
WHAT: Travelling Film Festival Toowoomba
WHEN: Friday 7 September – Sunday 9 September, 2018
WHERE: Toowoomba Strand Cinema, 163 Margaret St, Toowoomba QLD 4350
SINGLE TICKETS: $14 / $12 / $10 (Adult / Concession / Student & Kids & Under 26)
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: FULL SUBSCRIPTION: $81 Adult / $72 Concession
5-FILM FLEXIPASS: $53 Adult / $48 Concession
HOW TO BOOK: Book tickets online in advance at sff.org.au/toowoomba
For ticket enquiries please contact Sydney Film Festival on 02 8220 6600 or contact the cinema box office.
